I’ll be building some cabinets with inset door and drawer fronts. Everything including the frame will be covered a laminate with a distinctive pattern. How do you go about making sure the pattern lines up everywhere? Is it ok to have laminate seams on the cabinet frame, for instance?

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Take two sheets, match up the patterns and cut the frame from one and the door fronts from the other.

Getting OCD about matching the patterns maynot be a great idea however. It won’t matchthe way real wood looks by any stretch if youuse vertical grain laminate on horizontal parts.If you’re building frameless you can cut thelaminate lengthwise for edge banding and trimthe edges before assembly. Save the grainmatching for the door and drawer fronts.